Team proves that basic collider concepts from particle physics can be transferred to solid-state research
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - 13:00
in Physics & Chemistry
In the early 1900s, Ernest Rutherford shot alpha particles onto gold foils and concluded from their scattering properties that atoms contain their mass in a very small nucleus. A hundred years later, modern scientists took that concept to a new level, building the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland to smash protons into each other, which led to the discovery of the Higgs boson.